Jo Livingstone

Skate Trip Václav Varaďa, Steve Sheilds, Miroslav Šatan, Bob Boughner, Alexander Moginly, Derek Plante.

My buddy Ian from the park wrote a beautiful essay about sandwiches and seizures.

www.thestopgap.net/skate-trip/

Skate Trip Václav Varaďa, Steve Sheilds, Miroslav Šatan, Bob Boughner, Alexander Moginly, Derek Plante.

My buddy Ian from the park wrote a beautiful essay about sandwiches and seizures.

www.thestopgap.net/skate-trip/

💜💔💜

What It’s Like To Be A Writer On A Green Card In 2025 stressful

I wrote down a couple of thoughts on what it’s like to be a writer on a Green Card right now.

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Until last summer it was an American’s constitutional right not to have their noncitizen spouse deported without due process. I genuinely and dumbly believed yr rights mattered like a lot

“I Can’t Go On, I Must Go On” | Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, Will Simpson Some readers may have been surprised to find a three-page comic in our February 27 issue: a collaboration by Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco titled “Never

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US Park Service pulls human rights activist Pauli Murray page after Trump’s 2-gender order "LGBTQ+ stories are part of our shared American inheritance, and these changes to the Park Service web page are nothing short of an attempt to erase history."

US Park Service pulls human rights activist Pauli Murray page after Trump’s 2-gender order
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If I were still a weekly critic I’d be pitching an article rn about all the new books and movies about letting yourself be slowly eaten alive by a creature

Tuesday Obituary: Aaron Bushnell Born on the last day of June in 1998, he exchanged his life in protest one year ago today, on February 25, 2024.

The Persian poet Ferdowsi described a prince who, shielded by Truth, rode horseback through fire without coming to harm. www.thestopgap.net/tuesday-obit...

The Death of Taboo How Donald Trump and his allies have drained the stigma from society's worst transgressions.

Here’s something I wrote in 2019 about how hard it is to repair what trump is breaking newrepublic.com/article/1543...

I thought a god-botherer was bothering god but now I find it’s people who bother you about god in the street

Nytletter.com we really made it clear

NYU Langone Is Canceling Gender-Affirming Care Appointments for Trans Kids, Parents Say The cancellations come on the heels of an executive order signed by President Trump directing institutions that receive federal funding to end gender-affirming care for patients under the age of 19.

In case you were thinking that kids in NYC were, somehow, safe from all this hellgatenyc.com/nyu-langone-...

If you could live through this century without becoming radicalized then you are human runway

Was the same pre-Iraq. They just didn’t want to be seen as emotional weirdos. The weakest minds

Fashion?! God it pisses me off how the nice liberals joined the “xyz has gone too far” backlash in order to feel culturally normal and now are panicking over the mystery

Legend

A star!!!

MELT JULEP SUPERFECTA Will Simpson photographs the 2024 Kentucky Derby.

Melt Julep Superfecta: a series of digital and analog photographs from the 2024 Kentucky Derby. Also for @jolivingstone.bsky.social at the the Stopgap.
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SUMMER CAMERA DIARY SEPTEMBER Will Simpson on the street.

2024 ᴀʀᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ ʀᴇᴄᴀᴘ (reverse chrono):
Summer Camera Diary September
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Ehehehehe

You’re allowed to do anything

Today I sat in on a friend’s doctoral defense and one of the examiners was a historian who, having absorbing that hauntology was part of her argument, tried angrily for 30 mins to get her to admit that ghosts aren’t real. She did a fake “ok you got me!” concession & he was like fab lets move on

tech reporters you have new obligations that I’m not sure you’re equipped to meet

Big problem going on with the pronunciation of ‘corset’

Do republicans like Neil young. Genuinely

Slipping opus anglicanum in wherever I can

Competing Fantasies: K. Austin Collins on Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 01/01/2025 · 52m

A season finale gift to you……K Austin Collins on Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Happy Gawain day freaks